Undercover police officers falsely arrested four men for the sale of narcotics at a Queens nightclub. The pair of officers complicit in the act were indicted a few days ago for the offense.The officers allegedly tampered with evidence and falsified reports in order to make the arrest. Their motive for the unconscionable act was reportedly an attempt to boost their overtime pay.
The four men who were falsely arrested and imprisoned were exonerated when security video obtained from the site of the arrest proved that the undercover cops had no contact with the four men inside of the nightclub during a buy and bust operation as they had claimed.
One of the police officers involved in this incident has retired. The other officer has been placed on desk duty. According to The New York Daily News, "each [officer] faces up to nine years in prison for unlawful imprisonment, conspiracy, official misconduct, and other charges."
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